Flannel Shirt

(night off)

Because nothing.

Valentine's Day

Well, our neighbors celebrated Valentine's Day. Joan met up with all her friends for what they call "Gal-intine's Day". They went to a seafood place downtown and had a good time. Tonight Joan and I celebrated by having some ice cream tonight after dinner. 

 

Rainy day girls

The highlight of the day was me going across the street to get a haircut. So here's a picture of our rainy day girls to the south.

Nothing happened

Even Izzy is bored. 

 

To scare wolves

Have you seen these things? They are usually set up outside new businesses to get a driver's attention. A rancher up here in Oregon is having problems with wolves killing his livestock, but he lives in an area where the wolves are protected by federal law and only non-lethal things can be used to keep them out. He got one of these to put out in a field to scare te wolves away.

Nothing much else.

Good neighbors

That's our neighbors from across the street shoveling the snow off our sidewalk on Saturday. Ramona helped for a little while, then decided it was more fun to throw snowballs at her parents. She didn't hit anything but he sidewalk. Dad cleaned up the walkway after her. 

There was still some snow hanging around on Sunday, which made Izzy and my walk a little scary at times. But rain is coming in tonight instead of snow, so I guess our "snowmageddon" is over.

(night off)

It snowed over Friday night, and a couple of inches stuck. Not snowmageddon. 

Wood Elf

This morning it was feeling really cold and, of course Izzy wanted to go a few extra blocks. 

There's a series of storms coming this way. Actually, the first one is here. It's a steady rain, and the temperature is dropping. Luckily, tomorrow is Saturday so the weekday commute into town won't be impacted, but after tonight's storm there's another one coming in Saturday night. The seven-day forecast is a little blurry but it sounds like we'll be getting some more storms and snow. When we only get an inch of snow the city goes nuts. It wouldn't make sense to prepare for one snowstorm every couple of years but get hit with four in a week. We'll see what the weather will be overnight. 

Above is a picture of a wood elf from four years ago. And as cute as he was, he's a real person now. A really good kid. We hosted him after school today. It's great when we pick him up. He briefs us as to the latest events in school and in his life. Today he was carrying a Captain America shield, which had a zipper pocket and could also be used as a frisbee. When we got home O demonstrated the frisbee feature. I don't know if the zipper pocket was spoiling its aerodynamics, but he didn't care that it took him two tries to get it on the porch. 

Really, nothing. Izzy got a new bed and so she's sleeping on my bed tonight.

Izzy pictures

These pictures are from the walk Izzy and I took yesterday after the snow. going down to the end of the block. Karen and John live there with their kids. The little one, Mabel, was taking off her snow boots on the porch and Karen was talking her through it. But then Mabel saw Izzy and her face burst into a big, beautiful smile. When we turned around to head back down the block Izzy tried to steer me up the stairs at the end of the block. Sorry, Iz.

By today most of the snow was melted and gone, but the north sides of the blocks on our walk were iced over. We crossed over to the sunny side of the street where the sidewalks were bone dry.